"A good movie can always reflect the various aspects of life..."

On the stage of the Venice Film Palace, the chairman of the judges Alexander Displatt said a long list of words about the film returning to its essence, and then looked down at the card in his hand, "The one who won the Golden Lion Award at this film festival is..."

The closing ceremony of this Venice Film Festival has come to an end, and only the most important Golden Lion Award has not been announced yet.

Many European directors in the audience were eagerly watching Alexander Displatt. In a sense, the Golden Lion, Golden Bear and Palme d'Or are the highest film awards they can win.

Compared to these people, Murphy seemed very calm. The purpose of the screening of "Focus" at the Venice Film Festival has been achieved for him. Whether it is the film's momentum and reputation, or the impact and negative impact on Catholicism, it has greatly exceeded previous expectations.

This is very beneficial for "Focus" to hit the Academy Awards next year.

Due to personal cognitive problems, the Oscar Little Golden Man's status in his heart is naturally far higher than the highest awards of the three major European film festivals.

It is also because of this that after attending the opening ceremony, Murphy left Venice directly and went to the Toronto Film Festival, which is more important to the North American film market, and did not return to Venice until the closing ceremony.

As for some publicity and public relations work here, they were naturally handed over to 20th Century Fox.

Therefore, Murphy believes that his chances of winning should not be too high.

Although all the media have praised "Focus", given the choice of the Venice Film Festival in recent years, they are not optimistic about "Focus" winning the Golden Lion Award.

Moreover, tonight's closing ceremony and award ceremony have been held, and "Focus" has not won any awards. It seems like the past few years. No matter how the quality of the movie itself is, the Venice Film Festival will ignore films from Hollywood in order to show its personality.

But the name pronounced by the judges Alexander Displatt made the audience silent for a moment.

"The Golden Lion Award winner is..." He paused briefly and gave the answer, "Focus!"

The Movie Palace was extremely quiet, with only the voice of the judges chairman Alexander Displatt floating around.

"Focus?" Many European filmmakers were a little stunned, "How is this possible?"

The applause first rang out at the place where Hollywood filmmakers focused, and then most people started to applaud, but compared to when European filmmakers won awards, the applause is not very loud and a bit messy now.

"That's how it is."

Murphy had already stood up and walked towards the podium without hesitation. Unlike the Best Picture at the Oscars, the highest awards at the three major European film festivals were all given to the director.

He was very fast and his head turned very quickly. When he came to the front of the stage, he had already thought of some reasons for winning the award. The theme of "Focus" is the key!

I'm afraid that Italian colleagues have also been fed up with Catholic restrictions and oppression...

Walking onto the stage and throwing all of this behind his head, Murphy took the Golden Lion from the jury chairman Alexander Displatt and stood in front of the microphone.

"Thank you, thank you, the judges." Murphy was not ready to make a long speech and said as briefly as possible, "Thank you Stanton Studio and Twentieth Century Fox, and thank everyone on the "Focus" crew! This Golden Lion Award means a lot to me!"

He thought for a while and then said, "Borrowing two lines from the movie, the church is an institution, composed of people, it will make mistakes, it will disappear, and our faith is eternal. Sometimes, we love to forget, and most of the time, we stumble in the dark until dawn!"

In any case, this is one of the highest awards for world movies, and it is naturally better to have it than not.

Standing on the podium that was much higher, Murphy could see that the directors sitting in the first row were full of doubts and disdain on their faces. It seemed that his winning of this award was seriously contrary to the art of film.

Murphy knew very well that Hollywood directors like him who mainly shoot commercial majors are not as good as the eyes of many pretentious European directors.

After saying his acceptance speech, Murphy walked off the podium and completely ignored those people.

According to the awards rating principles of the Venice Film Festival in recent years, "Focus" is indeed not a popular Golden Lion Award, and winning the Golden Lion Award can be considered an upset, but the question is, are those directors and their works more qualified than "Focus"? It can better represent the art of film?

Before the closing ceremony, the recognized popular Golden Lion Award film was "Silence of Silence", which tells the "9?30" incident that massacred Communists during the Suharto period in Indonesia.

The film is completely from the perspective of an executioner. These murderers who were killed in the past are still in power. They not only do not repent of their evil deeds, but instead perform various killing techniques in front of the camera without restraint. They even teach how to kill people faster and more efficiently, and what kind of results they will show when chopping off their genitals. They talked loudly without any scruples.

If the hell of "Silence" comes from description and imagination, then another popular film "Female Addict" is even more bizarre. Director Lars von Tyre has a stronger taste. Let's talk about Charlotte Gansb's scene of abortion, which was close-up with every detail of the surgical procedure, which drove away many viewers with fragile hearts. The audience who insisted on staying also admitted that they felt disgusted with internal injuries after watching it.

Even in Western society, Ras von Tyre's actions were undoubtedly full of provocation.

Can such a film represent the art of film? Are European directors like Lars von Tyre really working hard to realize the art of film?

I'm afraid anyone with a wise mind will come up with a negative answer.

Just like the visual effects of mainstream commercial films in Hollywood, they are just creating selling points that attract audiences.

It’s just that these people do not have enough investment and the technical support behind the movie, which determines that they cannot create time-consuming and labor-intensive scenes. They can only rely on relatively cheap nudes, 3p, ** and other large-scale meat-selling scenes to attract audiences to make profits.

If some people say that these large-scale European films represent film art, I'm afraid many people will vomit his face.

In any case, it is an indisputable fact that Hollywood movie guides the global movie market.

Compared with the globalization of Hollywood movies, the living space of European movies is also greatly threatened. Statistics show that Italian movies only account for about 30% of the local market, which is already the highest local share in the whole of Europe. More and more European directors and actors are following in Hollywood's footsteps, pursuing more practical returns such as movie box office.

As we all know, Hollywood's globalization has enabled American films to break cultural barriers and obtain higher box offices, and the movie itself has become more easy to understand. Hollywood films are rampant all over the world and have a subtle influence on the aesthetics of global movie audiences. France, which once had a comparable strength to American films, has plummeted its global influence in Italy.

Against this background, the weakness of European film festivals is also unavoidable.

The Venice Film Festival came to an end, but the Golden Lion Awards ended in "Focus" and Murphy, and the response was completely different from the mouths of North American and European media.

Mainstream media in North America generally believe that Murphy and "Focus" won the Golden Lion Award is something that everyone hopes for.

Many European media have used words such as "unpopular" and "upset" to describe the most important awards of the Venice Film Festival.

In any case, Murphy's take-away Golden Lion award was an unchangeable result.

The day after the closing ceremony of the Venice Film Festival, Murphy left Italy and returned to North America. The film "Focus" took advantage of the opportunity of screening at the Venice Film Festival and the Toronto Film Festival to create a huge momentum. Film manufacturers from many countries and regions have come to Twentieth Century Fox to introduce this film.

There is still a long time before "Focus" is released, but 20th Century Fox has started negotiations with publishers in many countries. In just over a week, more than 30 countries and regions have signed formal contracts with 20th Century Fox.

In addition to some overseas markets that Twentieth Century Fox can publish itself, the film "Focus" will appear in theater markets in at least 80 countries and regions.

This is enough to ensure that the film will have world-class influence.

Of course, Murphy and Twentieth Century Fox must first ensure the attention the film "Focus" can attract in the North American market.

With the development of Hollywood movies to the present, most popular films in North America will also cause sensation in overseas markets, and at least ignite the film market in the Western world.

To be honest, Murphy never thought that this film could influence several countries in the East, after all, the spread of Catholicism there was not particularly widespread.

It is no exaggeration to say that without Catholicism as the basis, the influence of "Focus" would be much smaller.

Subsequently, Twentieth Century Fox began pre-screening promotional marketing of "Focus", mobilizing its media to constantly hype related topics, and Catholicism is still one of the topics.

"What is distorted is not entirely belief cognition, but people themselves have no faith and can only be influenced by common religious beliefs around them..."

Perhaps because he witnessed the whole incident with his own eyes, Gal Gadot had a unique feeling. He once said to Murphy, "Religious beliefs are often people's brand awareness of religious organizations. Once the organizational management is not sound, problems are prone to problems. The problem is covered up because people believe in authority and tradition. This is like religious organizations selling beliefs. Sales staff hurt consumers, but consumers have no way to complain."
Chapter completed!